Glycemic Control and Associated Factors Among Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Southwest Ethiopia.

Purpose: Type 1 diabetes mellitus is the most common endocrine disorder among children and adolescents worldwide. Glycemic control is the ultimate goal of management of diabetes. Poor glycemic control is shown to be associated with complications of diabetes.

Current practices and evaluation of barriers and facilitators to surgical site infection prevention measures in Jimma, Ethiopia.

Objective: Surgical site infections (SSIs) greatly burden healthcare systems around the world, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. We sought to employ the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) model to better characterize SSI prevention practices and factors affecting adherence to prevention guidelines at Jimma University Medical Center (JUMC).

Design: Our cross-sectional study consisted of semistructured interviews designed to elicit perceptions of and barriers and facilitators to SSI prevention among surgical staff and observations of current preoperative, perioperative, and postoperative SSI prevention practices in surgical cases.

The Relation Between Organizational Justice and Counter-Productive Work Behavior Among Health Care Professionals in Jimma Zone Public Health Institutions.

Background: Counterproductive behavior costs organizations and their members which will ultimately affect work-related outcomes and organizational success. Organizational justice has the potential to affect the level of counter productive behavior. However, there is a paucity of studies to show the link between counterproductive behavior and organizational justice dimensions in the Ethiopian health care system context.

Prevalence of domestic violence in a time of catastrophic disease outbreaks including COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review protocol.

Background: Domestic violence is a public health issue that has a long-term and irreversible effect on the victims. There are vulnerable groups like children, women, and elders. The problem becomes worse for these populations in the time of catastrophic events including disease pandemics.

Utilizing the SEIPS model to guide hand hygiene interventions at a tertiary hospital in Ethiopia.

We aimed to apply the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) model to increase effectiveness and sustainability of the World Health Organization's (WHOs) hand hygiene (HH) guidelines within healthcare systems. Our cross-sectional, mixed-methods study took place at Jimma University Medical Center (JUMC), a tertiary care hospital in Jimma, Ethiopia, between November 2018 and August 2020 and consisted of three phases: baseline assessment, intervention, and follow-up assessment. We conducted questionnaires addressing HH knowledge and attitudes, interviews to identify HH barriers and facilitators within the SEIPS framework, and observations at the WHO's 5 moments of HH amongst healthcare workers (HCWs) at JUMC.

Quality of Family Planning Services and Associated Factors in Jimma Town Public Hospitals, Southwest Ethiopia.

Background: The quality of care is greatly compromised specially in resource limited settings that influence the uptake and continuation of use of family planning services. However, there is paucity of studies in Jimma Town public hospitals. Thus this study aimed to assess the quality of family planning services and associated factors in Jimma Town public hospitals, Southwest Ethiopia.